Power Point presentation/slide collection to accompany paper concerning Commitment, Accountability, Responsibility, and Action as applied to learning when False Evidence Appears Real.
1. CARA à cara
Overcoming unfounded FEAR
four ways online
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2. FEAR
Let’s consider it: An acronym?
False Evidence Appearing Real
Let’s define it: 5 W’s and H
What, where, when, who, why, how?
Let’s ask: What are our fears?
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3. CARA
Yes, it is an acronym
Commitment
Accountability
Responsibility
Action
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4. CARA against FEAR: Unite!
United Nations convention, 1951:
Lay down basic minimum standards:
Access to: Documentation, work, courts, education
United Nations World Education Forum, Dakar, 2000:
Framework for action on 6 goals:
Ensure: Care, lifelong education, life skills training
Achieve: Equitability, numeracy, 50% literacy
United Nations post-2015 initiative: Sustainability, voluntarism
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5. Commitment, an introduction… what?
• Engagement
• Persistence
• Insistence to resolve
• And for you?
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6. Commitment, in Dakar Initiative
Six goals, promises to achieve:
•Expand early childhood education & care
•Provide free & compulsory primary education for all
•Promote learning & life skills for youths and adults
•Increase adult literacy by 50%
•Achieve gender parity & then gender equality
•Improve quality of education
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7. Accountability, an introduction
What is it?
How is it evident?
Who institutes it & where?
Who notices it, who undergoes it, & how?
UN: Responsibility, answerability, enforceability
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8. Accountability, by UN standards
Pillay’s three elements:
Responsibility, Answerability, Enforceability
Duty bearing, Explaining, Comforting to avoid fear
Circle of accountability:
Plan, Budget, Implement, Monitor, Evaluate, Redress
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9. Responsibility, an introduction
Being the “go-to” one
Knowing how to cultivate respect
Knowing how to develop interaction
Knowing how & when to take charge, then taking charge
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10. Responsibility, by UN standards
Depends upon multi-faceted training
Depends upon experts, expertise
Depends upon clear organization
Depends upon everyone’s participation
“Best generated from within, by all”
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11. Action, an introduction
What is it?
Movement? Change? Continuity? Evolution? Revolution?
How does it occur & how is it evident?
Who institutes it, who notices it, who benefits?
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12. Action in action, UN-style, together
Co-ordinate 5 ways
Policy dialogue
Monitoring
Advocacy
Funding
Capacity development
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13. Action in action, UNAI examples…
Black Sea Universities Network (BSUN): Water
University of Bergen & EU: Project Aramaic online
Uni System Puerto Rico (AGMUS): Global citizenship
Norwalk (CT) CC: Education to alleviate poverty
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14. CARA against FEAR, re-visited
How to rebuff False Evidence?
Three D’s
Define
Discover
Defeat
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15. CARA à cara: Learning one to one to many
How to realize the real?
Make commitments
Make everyone accountable
Define responsibility & the responsible
Profiting from the above, realize action
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